Hey all, My sincerest apologize to all! The last post has does exactly what I want it to do. There is no need have to do anything else at all with the code. Trial and error :)
Regards, Dan Hey all, [Config File] Linux Passwd File = /etc/passwd New File = /home/test Old File = /home/test Company Name = Company Name Company URL = http://www.servername.com Above is a config file I just created. I want perl to be able to read all the valus of this file into a hash. Now I can do this no problem with the following code... $file = '/home/config'; sub read_config { open FILE, "$file" or die "cannot open '$file': $!\n"; while( <FILE> ) { $CONFIG_NAME = $1 and next if /^\s*\[\s*(.*?)\s*\]\s*$/; next unless defined $CONFIG_NAME && /^\s*(.*?)\s*=\s*(.*?)\s*$/; $CONFIG{$CONFIG_NAME}{$1} = $2; } close FILE; return %CONFIG; } As we all know :) this will return the hash (%CONFIG) in the form of... %CONFIG = ( 'Config File => { 'Linux Passwd File' => '/etc/passwd', 'New File' => '/home/test', 'Old File' => '/home/test', 'Company Name' => 'Company Name', 'Company URL' => 'http://www.servername.com' }, ) Now if the cofig file looked like this.... [ Config File ] Linux Passwd File = /etc/passwd New File = /home/test Old File = /home/test Company Name = Company Name Company URL = http://www.servername.com Then the scrip would still return the correct hash like so.... %CONFIG = ( 'Config File => { 'Linux Passwd File' => '/etc/passwd', 'New File' => '/home/test', 'Old File' => '/home/test', 'Company Name' => 'Company Name', 'Company URL' => 'http://www.servername.com' }, ) ..... but what I need to know is if It is possible for the code above to be manipulated in such a way where I or the user could write the config file in the following way... #This is the Config File Name [Config File] #This is the Linux password file #Please make sure this is correct Linux Passwd File = /etc/passwd New File = /home/test Old File = /home/test Company Name = Company Name Company URL = http://www.servername.com So in other words I still want to be able to exactly what I can do now but also place a # (comment) any where in the script and then have the code completly ignore it. I also wna tto be able to place a new line or 2 or 3 in the code and have the code completly ignore it. Is this possible? Kind regards, Dan ============================== VINTEK CONSULTING PTY LTD (ACN 088 825 209) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.vintek.net Tel: (08) 8523 5035 Fax: (08) 8523 2104 Snail: P.O. Box 312 Gawler SA 5118 ============================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
